On 2010-11-18, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 02:43 on Thursday 18 November 2010, Walter > Dnes did opine thusly: > >> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 02:00:48AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote >> >> > If you then mentioned that their defaults broke Dale's setup, they'd >> > likely answer "Who's Dale?" followed shortly by "None of us have >> > hardware like Dale to test. Sorry 'bout that. Set USE=-hal" >> >> Of course the USE flag advice is given *AFTER* the new flag breaks >> your system. That's why I use "-*" at the beginning of my USE in >> /etc/make.conf. I never found out whether hal would break my system<G>. >> If Dale had used "-*" his X would not have broken, even if some other >> ebuild pulled it onto the machine as a hard-coded dependancy. > > Looks like the *actual* problem is non-application of OYFEAL[1],not what the > devs do.
Google doesn't seem to know what OYFEAL means. Do we get any hints? -- Grant
